WebAfrica Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War.It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, and the coast of western Libya along the Gulf of Sirte.The territory was originally inhabited by Berber …

WebA proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a consul.A proconsul was typically a former consul. The term is also used in recent history for officials with delegated authority. In the Roman Republic, military command, or imperium, could be exercised constitutionally only by a consul.There were two consuls at a time, each …

WebMacedonia (Greek: Μακεδονία) was a province of the Roman Empire, encompassing the territory of the former Antigonid Kingdom of Macedonia, which had been conquered by Rome in 168 BC at the conclusion of the Third Macedonian War.The province was created in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of …

WebThe Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They established Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in the fifth century.. The Vandals migrated to the area between the lower Oder and Vistula rivers in the second century BC and settled in Silesia from around 120 BC. …

WebThe Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula was a process by which the Roman Republic seized territories in the Iberian Peninsula that were previously under the control of native Celtiberian tribes and the Carthaginian Empire.The Carthaginian territories in the south and east of the peninsula were conquered in 206 BC during the Second Punic …

WebA primeira classificação das tribos berberes, válida para a segunda metade do século XIV, foi fornecida pelo historiador árabe ibne Caldune.A leste se situavam os Lowata da Cirenaica, de Tripolitânia, do Jeride e do Aurés, a oeste, os branês e os Zenata.Estes últimos, grandes nômades conquistadores que chegaram na África do Norte no fim do …

WebWhite people first came to the region in southern Africa today called Zimbabwe in the sixteenth century, when Portuguese colonials ventured inland from Mozambique and attacked the Kingdom of Mutapa, which then controlled an area roughly equivalent to eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique.Portuguese influence over Mutapa endured …

WebWhile his paternal family was from the Volscian town of Velletri, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of Rome, Augustus was born in Rome on 23 September 63 BC. He was born at Ox Head, a small property on the Palatine Hill, very close to the Roman Forum.He was given the name Gaius Octavius, and in his childhood he received the cognomen …

WebDuring the reign of Alexander Severus, Gordian I (who was by then in his late sixties), after serving his Suffect Consulship prior to 223, drew lots for the proconsular governorship of the province of Africa Proconsularis which he assumed in 237. However, prior to the commencement of his promagistrature, Maximinus Thrax killed Alexander Severus at …

WebGnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Latin: [ˈnːae̯.ʊs pɔmˈpɛjjʊs ˈmaŋnʊs]; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey / ˈ p ɒ m p iː / or Pompey the Great, was a leading Roman general and statesman. He played a significant role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire.He was (for a time) a student of Roman …